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Job Satisfaction in Britain: Coping with Complexity
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In this article, a more complex situation is presented showing significant falls in satisfaction with the job facets, the work itself, and hours worked, significant rises in satisfaction in total pay and security of job, and a steep decline in overall job satisfaction among women and stable or slightly rising overall jobs satisfaction among men.Abstract:
Claims for a growth of despondency in the British workforce in the 1990s, based on job satisfaction data, are questioned by an evaluation of: (i) the bases of comparison, (ii) features of job-satisfaction measures, (iii) the properties of key data sets and (iv) inferences drawn from the data. A more complex situation is presented showing significant falls in satisfaction with the job facets, the work itself, and hours worked; significant rises in satisfaction with total pay and security of job; a steep decline in overall job satisfaction among women and stable or slightly rising overall job satisfaction among men. Trends in job quality, workforce composition, the economic cycle and changing work values among women, rather than generalized despondency, are proposed as sources for hypotheses for future research. The latter should include a review of data requirements, and research on the performance of measures of job satisfaction.read more
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Overall job satisfaction: how good are single-item measures?
TL;DR: A meta-analysis of single-item measures ofOverall job satisfaction found an average uncorrected correlation of .63 (SD = .09) with scale measures of overall job satisfaction, which is slightly lower than the overall mean correlation.
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Job satisfaction and gender: Why are women so happy at work?
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What really matters in a job? Hedonic measurement using quit data
TL;DR: This paper used labour market spell data from the first seven waves of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) to model separations and quits and found that job satisfaction data are powerful predictors of both separations, even controlling for wages, hours and standard demographic and job variables.
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